brakes

[wollybugger]

I believe it was on this web site that someone said they used Pledge to get their faded plastic back to red again. I decided to try this on my badly faded Givi hard case. The poor thing is about eight or nine years old, has made two trips from Arkansas to Alaska and a couple of trips to Arizona. Once it got singed a bit in a fire. It has certainly had its wear. Well, I wiped it down with Pledge and it came back to life. It looks nearly as good as new. Thanks for the tip, whoever made it. Joe Grove Jonesboro, AR

[Jeff Khoury]

#ygrps-yiv-2054367615 p {margin:0;}I use Pledge on my plastics all the time.  If you have some that's really stubborn, hit it (gently) with a heat gun, then pledge.  Works wonders.  Just. Be. Careful. - don't completely melt your plastics.  You just wanna make the very surface a little warm... -Jeff Khoury

----- Original Message ----- From: "wollybugger" To: "DSN KLR650" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:01:51 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Pledge and plastic   I believe it was on this web site that someone said they used Pledge to get their faded plastic back to red again. I decided to try this on my badly faded Givi hard case. The poor thing is about eight or nine years old, has made two trips from Arkansas to Alaska and a couple of trips to Arizona. Once it got singed a bit in a fire. It has certainly had its wear. Well, I wiped it down with Pledge and it came back to life. It looks nearly as good as new. Thanks for the tip, whoever made it. Joe Grove Jonesboro, AR

[Jeffrey]

Thanks...mine was looking like crap till reminded of Lemon Pledge. I know someone who waxes his entire Porsche with Pledge because no wax buildup. Jeffrey #3

[transalp 1]

Attachments : #ygrps-yiv-1906351313 v\00003a* {} #ygrps-yiv-1906351313 o\00003a* {} #ygrps-yiv-1906351313 w\00003a* {} #ygrps-yiv-1906351313 .ygrps-yiv-1906351313shape {} I wasn't saying locking up brakes is a good quality trait of a braking system. Rather, I'm for having enough brakes to do what you need them to do and when you need it.   Riding school was right. Locking up brakes unexpectedly is a loss of control. Watch a super-motard race and see what skidding a rear tire on purpose is all about. (attached photo taken at a gocart track near Barnesville GA in 2007) I'm not one of those guys. But, it is possible to slide a tire and not have an accident. The trick is knowing what your bike will do and having the practice to manage it.   After my post yesterday, I was in traffic on my KLR and slowed rather aggessively on the downhill side of a concrete bridge. I must've applied the brakes too hard in combination with unseen debris (dirt, oil, etc...) because the front tire howled in protest. It didn't lock solid. But, I'm pretty sure it's rpms no longer matched the back tire. LOL Oh, yea, it suprised the heck out of  me!  What I didn't do was overreact. There are a number of drivers and riders alike that, when a tire skids, they freak out and "Oh, no!" in a millisecond and clench up tight - locking the brakes entirely until they are 1st a passenger and then accident victim.   It's been a long time but it sticks out in my mind like it was yesterday. There was a single disc up front and a tiny drum brake on the rear of my 89' XL600V. Even with good pads and fresh fluid, after a series of events {never ride mad at your girlfriend or her mother}  I overheated them one afternoon and needed to do a hard stop at the bottom of a hill in a subdivison. I wasn't going 35mph but when the brakes went away - faded and ceased to slow the bike. I dang near went through a stop sign and into the path of a car. It wasn't long afterward I switched to a different compound brake pad set. Honda went to dual discs on later models of the XLV for a reason.   ABS on a bike is fine. But, keep in mind a few things it does not do. * Work while the bike is leaned. * Stop a bike quicker {shorter distance} than non- ABS brakes. Same for cars. Having ample normal brakes and the practice in their use and you will stop quicker.   eddie    

----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] colacacher@sbcglobal.net [b]To: [/b]transalp1@mindspring.com [b]Sent:[/b] 8/25/2010 8:57:43 AM [b]Subject:[/b] RE: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Stock is as stock does  

I was told is riding school that if you lock up the front or rear tire that you lose control, and some street bikes come with anta lock brakes I had a car turn left in front of me from the right lane and I was glad that the front did not lock up I had a lot more control without a lock up.    

 

 

[fasteddiecopeman]

... and Pledge (or the generic equivalents) does GREAT work on visors and windshields!!! Ed